How to properly redirect using good SEO for a single url page to another page?

February 10, 2011

The way to properly redirect a single page on your website somewhere to another page of your choice and it be done using proper SEO is to edit your htaccess file using the following code. Be sure to use this code as one redirect per line which means hit the “enter” key guys! Did I [...]

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How important is Canonicalization?

February 10, 2011

Canonical url’s matter an without using this code on your redirected url’s you are only hurting yourself in the long run. Search engines rank pages and so if you are not showing the search engines which page you want ranked it will rank duplicate content twice and reduce the authority and reputation of both. One broad [...]

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What is the purpose of a tiny url shortener like the old school tinyurl?

February 10, 2011

Originally these shortening services were used to shorten urls so you could fit them into text based emails. Now with twitter and other social networking services people use these services to limit the amount of text in a message they send out. A common service nowadays is bit.ly and what people will do is automate [...]

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Spiders, 302 and 301 Redirects and what does this mean for SEO?

February 10, 2011

A 301 acts much like a link to a site pretty much. The redirect tells the search engine to go from point A to point B. A 302 to redirect is supposed to keep the original url but fetch content from page B or the new url. 302 Redirects are considered the best way to [...]

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How to properly use ALT tags in images for SEO

February 10, 2011

In situations where you have a picture and text link that both contain links for SEO you need to simply leave off teh ALT tag from the image. Images are required to have an ALT tag but leaving it off allows you to put alt text in the text link instead. By leaving it off you [...]

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